Oral history.; An interview conducted on September 19, 2007 with Rich Westfall, Director of Community Development at Isle of Capri Casino in Biloxi, who describes Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on the casino, the region, and the positive...
Oral history.; An interview with A.J. Holloway conducted on January 18, 2007. Mayor of Biloxi, Holloway describes the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city, as well as volunteer efforts in recovery.
Oral history.; An interview conducted on August 2, 2007 and October 9, 2007 with Edmond Boudreaux, Jr., a longtime Mississippi Gulf Coast resident and active local historian of the region. Mr. Boudreaux discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on...
A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...
Oral history.; Bishop Joseph Howze was born August 30, 1923, in Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama. He attended all-black, segregated schools, and he graduated from high school in Mobile, Alabama. Bishop Howze was a teacher in public and Catholic...
Oral history.; On September 13, 1924, Mr. Martin Thomas King, Jr., was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a child, Mr. King witnessed the flood of 1927. Mr. King attended public school in Vicksburg. From 1942 to 1946, Mr. King served in the Navy in...
Oral history.; Interview conducted on August 12, 1977 with Edward L. McDaniel (born 1934). Mr. McDaniel was instrumental in organizing the Ku Klux Klan in 1962 in Mississippi as the Grand Kleagle for the whole state. He started a state Klan in...
Oral history.; Mr. Ray William (Buck) Wells was born August 21, 1916, on a dairy farm three-fourths of a mile southwest of Mississippi Normal College (now The University of Southern Mississippi). Sometime around 1920 or 1921 he moved into...
Oral history.; Mr. Jack Raymond Reed was born on May 19, 1924, in Tupelo, Mississippi. In 1941, Mr. Reed graduated from Tupelo High School and he then entered the military and World War II as part of the Signal Intelligence Service, U.S. Army of...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the foreground, a man holding a newspaper is standing in front of his house, which is labeled "Public." A second man stands in front of another building, labeled "Business." Both men...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A Saudi business man in raditional robes sits on a chair outside his gas station. The sign above the building reads "Saudi service." In front of him are gasoline pumps and a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An oil barrel is on its side, and Jimmy Carter is on top of it crosswise and face down. Two large clouds are nearby [smoke?], one labeled “Imported oil prices" and the other...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan is stretched between two sections of oil pipeline which do not meet. His hands are at the opening of one pipe, and his feet are at the opening of the other. He...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man hides behind his desk at the Louisiana Department of Revenue. Behind him on the wall is a large graph with a downward trend line. Two Arabs throw oil barrels at each...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Bob Taylor. President Jimmy Carter wrestles with a sticky blob of tar drawn to resemble a reclining human form wearing an Arab-style head covering. Carter uses a large pair of scissors labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A cow with a pleased expression is shown, with "Dairy stabilization board" on its side. The horns are labeled "Milk...Industry." The large bell around its neck has "Political...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. On the Texas side of the Texas/Louisiana border a man in Western clothing stands next to a sign with the words, "Everything's more stupendous in Texas." A cactus is in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Riedell. Two Eskimos dressed in parkas and boots stand beside an igloo and look up at the night sky. The aurora borealis shines above them, and dollar signs radiate from its upper edges....
cartoon by Jack Jurden; A jar with a lid labeled "auto industry" and a cauldron labeled "insurance companies" are facing off. The jar wears and angry expression on its face and is releasing steam from beneath its lid and waving a fist at the...
Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 7, 2006 with George Dale (born 1940). Former Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Mississippi, Mr. Dale now serves as Public Policy Advisor for the law offices of Baker, Donelson. Dale discusses...
